To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it has no horse-power. Sometimes I think….

I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence for months. The th….

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express..

Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them without my mind pressing ag….

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed….

If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be ….

You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is..

In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of s….

You Do Not Know Is in You— an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that the ideas in you are an inexhau….

If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we ce….

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why you must freely a….

I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may ….

You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty a….

Who are the people, for example, to whom you go for advice? Not to the hard, practical ones who can tell you exactly what to do, but to the listeners….

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present..

the death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that..

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good.

it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritua….

So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important….

Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers..

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny..